Hands Up!

While on our trip to Canada last week, we went for a ride on the Kamloops Heritage Railway. This was a real working Steam Engine, the last of her class. We ran into a passing rain cloud and got a bit wet, but not too bad. This was fun. At the end of our ride we backed up past the station and had to stop as something was on the track and they had to move it before we could go any further. Then the bandits came riding up shooting their guns!

One of them got on board and yelled Hands Up! Then continued closer to us at the front of the train.

Bryant was petrified! He immediately put his hands in the air and kept them there the whole time the train robbers were on the train.

He really is scared and not faking it at all. Todd said when he picked him up he was shaking! So funny! After we saw the gold, the train robber talked to us passengers about the real train robber he was pretending to be and a little about him. Then they rode off with the gold!

down time

One day of our trip, Todd and Taylor left us at the hotel and went and fished for the day. We took our time getting up and then headed to the pool. All the hotels compete by having a water slide as an attraction. It was so fun! Bryant went down with me our first time and I was surprised at how pitch black it was inside the tube! It makes sense as you can see above in the photo, it is a sealed tube! But still, it caught me off guard and Bryant was holding on tight as we slid through it, it was so much fun! After that first ride down he was on a roll and went all by himself for a long time. Sydney loved it too!

In the pool they had fun with a small ball that we played catch with and a surfskate board for water.

Sydney figured out she could do backwards somersaults and never stopped!

The best of our trip to come...

Canada Fishing Trip

While Todd and Taylor fished...
We went on a hike. Bry, Syd and I started our hike around the lake, we had been gone about twenty minutes and we were coming through a clearing and headed to some trees when Bryant started talking about bears! As we walked along getting closer to these trees, my mind raced as to what I would do should we come across one or more bears, maybe a mother and her cubs who were learing to hunt. I finally decided we could not out run them and there wasn't anything to climb and can't bears swim? I thought we could swim, but I'd be dragging both kids and trying to get to a boat faster than the bear could get to us and then would the fisherman actually realize what was happening and help us into the boat and have the motor running??? This is how my mind works on overdrive! So we decided to turn back and retrace our steps back to the truck. Hike over!

The kids also collected rocks...

And threw rocks...

And read and ate back at the truck! More about our trip coming soon...

YW Camp 2010

I went to camp this year as a ward specialist then became a second level assistant. I will admit it was fun at times. I do believe it was one day too long though. As an assistant at camp you just help out with your level and are pretty much a chaperone for a small group of girls. I did learn to shoot an bow and arrows and even got a bulls eye! Taylor spent most of her free time in the archery area and had several bulls eyes. Her "buddy" at camp was a fifth year named Ariel, who just happens to be a Rigrup granddaughter, small world.

For our ward time we shared this huge slip n slide with another ward and the girls had fun. Taylor and I chose not to freeze and just sunned ourselves. It was so cold and the sun was behind the clouds more than it was out and it was pretty windy as the weather was changing. We had a cooler day the next day.

This wonderfully sweet lady is Sister Ekins from Garrison Creek ward, I believe. She is in my thoughts and prayers today as her little daughter who has CP died yesterday after an illness. This woman must have braided at least thirty dirty heads at camp, my daughter being one of them. She said it was pretty gross and yet she still did it, so kind and always with a smile. Even Taylor gave in and had her hair done, she loved it. Too bad I can't braid tight enough for it to stay in long... So, will I go again? Hmmmmm.... we'll shall see. I would like to go when Syndey goes to share that with her, she is going to love it!

So Happy...

My old Apple got whacked by Bryant, he threw something at the screen and this is what happened! It will be okay, I said. Todd said it would only spread until you couldn't see anything at all, darn! So last weekend we were in Portland for Nana's birthday, sorry to my friends-we will come visit in August, I promise! Todd and I went out and came back with this lovely little thing! I got to watch Germany score their third goal to go on and win third place in the World Cup while Todd campared the laptops that I had chosen and he had approved... The Apple is backwards from all other pc's and now I have to re-learn how it all works!

Rattlesnake Ridge July 5th, 2010

This is a popular hiking mountain with a cool view at top, as I've been told. I have not hiked this one yet, I'd have to make sure there weren't any snakes first!

Taylor was dog sitting for our friends for ten days and it just happened to be over the holiday, darn. We were at home for the first year in years and come to find out that fireworks are illegal in Renton! I know, I've never heard of that before either. This daytrip was on the fifth of July, Todd wanted to fish and I wanted to hike. So he fished with Taylor and I hiked with the dog, Sydney and Bryant.

Sydney wanted to pose in front of the little waterfall, so cute!

There is the dog in the above photo. Just after taking this photo we were walking back along the path, no one was around so I let Bryant lead the dog on the leash. Well, a man dressed all in black came up behind us, the dog went into protection mode, the dog pulled away from Bryant and he dropped the leash, and the dog bit the man on the leg! Really! I was like what? He was like, "He just bit me!, shocked! I about died for sure! I finally got ahold of the leash and held him tight up against my leg, made sure the guy was okay and started walking back to the truck. The man came up behind me again and asked if the dog was up on his shots as he was on holiday from Israel and had a wife and kids to worry about. He followed me to the truck where I wrote down all my info and gave me his email so we could send him a copy of the shot record. It broke the skin a bit but wasn't bleeding, and he will have a bruise, but he was okay. He never left the park to seek medical help and was still there three hours later when we left. I hope he doesn't sue me! Todd isn't worried and said, he was from Israel and has to be tough!

After fishing we called up our good friend and his boys to hike with us and they are pretty spontaneous like us and came over. We hiked a part of Cougar Mtn. and this view is looking towards our house. That clearing in the center is about where our house is, pretty cool!

And finally this was the extent of our fourth of July festivities! It rained, but we still BBQ'd hamburgers and the kids threw pop its on the wet ground!

Todd's Oral Surgery

Last week Todd told me he needed the dentist's phone number to make an appointment, his tooth was hurting, and he never complains so it must have been bad. He had had a filling redone and the dentist had told him he thought he had gotten it all, and Todd thought maybe he hadn't because his mouth was hurting. It was his last molar on the left. The dentist ended up referring him to a specialist and after meeting with him they made an appointment for surgery. They thought it might be a piece of tooth left over from his wisdom teeth removal, get this, TWELVE years ago! This past Tuesday morning he went in and had this huge piece of tooth removed and they were right, it was from the wisdom tooth ages ago! My camera wouldn't let me get a closer look, sorry. Guess I need to get my manual out and learn how to do it! Poor Toddy!